“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself” ― Simone de Beauvoir

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.” ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” ― Oscar Wilde

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” ― Elbert Hubbard

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.” ― Sylvia Plath